The number of care homes rated “inadequate” or requiring improvement increased in one in five English council areas last year, according to new analysis. Figures compiled by older people’s charity
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Theresa May has said it is important that an inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford gets under way as quickly possible. The Prime Minister said “we have all been
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One in four people in England have worried about the welfare, neglect or abuse of a child, research shows. But more than two fifths of those with concerns did not
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The UK is “falling behind” comparable countries for several child health issues, a new report has found. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, breastfeeding rates are among the lowest in
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There have been more than 10,000 “additional deaths” in England and Wales over the first few weeks of the year, experts have said. A new editorial published in the British
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A married couple who have a platonic relationship and live in different homes have been made the legal parents of a child born following a foreign surrogacy arrangement. The most
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Many children “will be condemned to start life in poverty” as a result of Government changes to taxes and social security, a major new report has warned. Watchdog the Equality
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Child sexual exploitation is a vile crime not exclusive to any one community, race or religion, the Government has said. Tory frontbencher Lord Young of Cookham was responding to claims
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The leader of Telford and Wrekin Council will call for the Home Secretary to launch an independent public inquiry into child sexual exploitation amid claims of up to 1,000 abuse
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There is “still work to do to improve safety” for patients with diabetes in hospital, a charity has warned. The comments from Diabetes UK come after an audit examined the
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